Links of relevance to Ethics and the Internet (mostly out of date now)
compiled by Bill Moninger (Bill.Moninger@noaa.gov)
for Science, Technology and Public Policy
- Edupage
(http://educause.unc.edu/edupage.html)
- a thrice-weekly
newsletter covering internet-related issues. An
excellent source of information. To subscribe to
Edupage: send mail listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message:
subscribe edupage Helen Keller (if your name is Helen Keller;
otherwise, substitute your own name).
- World Pages
(http://www.worldpages.com/reshome.html)
- Find people and businesses, including maps.
Exhibits some interesting privacy issues.
- Privacy And Customer Service In the
Electronic Age (http://www.ssa.gov/pebesreport/index.html)
- White paper on Social Security's experience
offering statemeny of
Personal Benefits Statements over the internet. Exhibits the
issues involved in providing government services electronically
- Swedish Personal Register Law
(http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/society/personal-register-law.html)
- Too much privacy? Swedish law about personal information on computers
(24-Oct-1988)
- Red Rock Eater Digest - Index
(http://commons.utopia.usweb.com/mailings/rre/)
- Email messages posted by Professor Phil Agre of UCSD. Social
comment on the internet, risk issues, privacy issues, general
sociology of the internet. About 8 messages a week. An
excellent way of keeping up-to-date on these issues.
Can subscribe to get email messages, or just browse this digest.
And here
are some random URL's recently suggested by Prof. Agre
- Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Conference (http://www.cfp.org/)
- Premier conference on these issues
- EFFweb - The
Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://ftp.eff.org/)
- Excellent source of information about privacy and censorship.
- CPSR's Home Page
(http://www.cpsr.org/)
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Primary
interest this year: governing the Internet
- The Center for
Democracy and Technology (http://www.cdt.org/)
- a non-profit public interest organization based in Washington,
DC. that works to develop and advocate public policies that
advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in
new computer and communications technologies
- "Chaffing
and Winnowing"
(http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt)
- MIT Professor Ron Rivest, co-inventor of RSA encription,
describing a method of secure communication that does not involve
encryption. He presents this an example of technologies
that are likely to ensure that efforts to regulate encryption
will fail.
- Fight Spam on the
Internet! (http://spam.abuse.net/)
- Dealing with electronic junk mail (spam)
- RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks)
- Moderated digest of technology-related risks. Very interesting reading
- Freedom of Information (FOI) Sites
(http://www.comlaw.utas.edu.au/law/FOI/bookmarks/FOI_Index.html)
- Information access issues
- Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
(http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/)
- Cyberculture: how the Internet is changing culture
- Sherry Turkle
(http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/)
- Professor Sherry Turkle, MIT, author of Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet. Studies social and
psychological issues of Cyberspace.
- Rob Kling - Professor, IU-SLIS, Center for
Social Informatics, The Information Society journal
(http://php.indiana.edu/~kling/)
- Studies social consequences of computerization. Co-author of
Computerization and Controversey, a thourough compendium
of well-chosen readings.
- Technology and Privacy, the New
Landscape
(http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/landscape.html)
- Information about the book of this title by Phil Agre and Mark
Rottenberg, MIT Press, 1997
- Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Ethics
(http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Ethics/)
- Links to ethics-related sites, with cross-links to privacy,
intellectual property, and encryption references
- Yahoo! - Computers and
Internet:Internet:Policies
(http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Policies/)
- Policies (all under development) on issues such as privacy,
censorship, ratings, trademarks
- Yahoo! - Society and Culture:Civil
Rights:Censorship:Censorship and the Net
(http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Civil_Rights/Censorship/Censorship_and_the_Net/)
- Censorship and the Internet
- Yahoo! - Society and Culture:Cultures and
Groups:Cyberculture
(http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cyberculture/)
- Links to other Cyberculture sites
Last modified: Thu Jul 11 20:01:45 GMT 2019